this is why you should. openly waves its black flags over to iraqi cities with thousands of refugees fleeing the impending bloodbath as the us backed army prepares for a counter attack on the insurgent forces. while in syria al qaida linked rebels and other opposition groups engage in bloody infighting the growing divisions among those aiming to topple assad are threatening the upcoming peace talks. plus the backing of the e.u. leaders defense to an all time low undermines trust in politicians affecting the way people see the common currency as they look for replacement. and with security being a major concern of the upcoming winter olympics and we take a look at how the host city is making sure athletes and spectators are affected.

you're watching live from moscow i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me thousands of iraqis are fleeing their homes in the anbar province province which has been turned into a war zone after al qaeda linked militants took control of the two cities there the army has yet failed to retake the occupied territories that have been declared an islamic state by the militants as the iraqi military gathers its forces for a decisive assault artie's garniture khan looks at what's empowering the extremists in the region. you know that integrity they run on chaos emboldened by the fighting in syria these are all kind of linked militants overran parts of iraq including the city of the literature we have said earlier

about the serious story and will actually go into iraq and this is what we were warning about chaos in neighboring syria deep as the u.s. and its allies threatened the syrian government sending the signal to the rebels to fight off to the detriment of the political outcome islamic schools have now taken over the opposition movement there and have even chased the western backed leader of the free syrian army out of the country to be honest you the reliever won't because if you kick it they're going to come out and bite you and that's what we did when we invaded iraq you know three and it can bite not just somewhere far in a war zone but here in the u.s. american intelligence and counterterrorism officials now say islamic extremist groups in syria with ties talk to recruiting and training americans who have traveled there to get them to carry out attacks when they return home there are dozens of extremist islamist forces that are operating both inside syria

and over the syrian borders walk has been a breeding ground for extremists since the u.s. invasion now residents of other parts of the country are bracing themselves for the iraqi army's assault as it attempts to drive militants out of seized areas the u.s. is supplying hellfire missiles and other weapons to help the iraqi government in the fight the last thing needs as more missiles we heard the u.s. government saying they decimated al qaeda is needed but the groups that continue their cause expand and what they thrive on best is chaos the u.s. backed chaos to iraq and in syria washington support for armed opposition has benefited extremists in washington i'm going to check on our quiz. if you had us behind the occupation of fallujah and ramadi is the infamous islamic state of iraq and the levant it's one of the most powerful al qaeda branches estimated to be six thousand men strong with that cells threatening the entire region and the

organization was formed by sunni insurgents in april two thousand and four a year after the us launched its invasion of iraq many members of the group are fighting in syria against assad and their force is rapidly gaining influence among the radical elements in the devastated country even lebanon has suffered from the group's activity with its being behind the latest bombing attack in beirut anders care gorg a former danish military intelligence officer who served in iraq believes the country's army won't be able to wipe out the extremist forces in my opinion the coda has never been on the run it might have been downscaling due to pressure but once this pressure is lifted the organization is spreading in full force and it uses these. pauses to regain its strength the fighting ability of the of the isis for instance is very strong but very contained. to localized battles and one thing the isis and the rebels has is is them and it they want to continue fighting

the iraqi army really hasn't got a chance to fight these militias. and to all to ready kate them. meanwhile in neighboring syria the strengthening of al qaeda linked groups has led to growing infighting between once allied rebels fierce clashes between rival opposition factions have killed at least seven hundred people this week almost one hundred of them are believed to be civilians who were executed by militants from the islamic state of iraq and levant the outbreak of a civil war within a civil war has prompted some western politicians who previously rooted solely for assad's removal to change their stance here are some of their latest statements former cia director michael hayden said the assad regime is beginning to look like the lesser of all evils the former u.s. ambassador to syria iraq and afghanistan and afghanistan ryan crocker agreed that

assad is not as bad as the hotties russia has long been warning of the threat some opposition groups in syria pose and foreign minister lavrov has welcomed the realisation of this in the west but turkey's prime minister meanwhile is still insisting the upcoming peace talks in geneva should seek the removal of assad here's political analyst care ward call maine on that. it's hardly surprising that arizona would come up with such a ridiculous line he's been behaving most to radically since the very start of the war. talking about regime change is not on the agenda obviously we're doing this themself under a threat of regime change in turkey so he's probably the last man in the region who would want to be talking about regime change at this stage of course you can't have political negotiations if one side say it's ridiculous preconditions and of course regime change is never really been an option in syria absolutely impossible to stage

a regime the only way you can have regime change in syria is if the regime is overthrown as it were that has an obviously is not the case and they failed to defeat the syrian army and talk about regime change is really on hopefully at this stage infighting within the ranks of syrian rebels is threatening the russia u.s. brokered peace conference that's due in less than two weeks the syrian national council which is the turkey based opposition group has postponed making a final decision on its participation in the talks because of growing divisions russia's foreign minister is heading to paris to meet the group's leader and persuade him to sit down face to face with the syrian government u.s. secretary of state john kerry along with other world's top diplomats is also there raising the pressure on the main western backed opposition group we'll keep you updated on what comes out of the two day meeting in the french capital that might just decide the fate of the long awaited syria peace talks. support

for the e.u. in some of the worst austerity hit european countries has plunged drastically in the past five years the data comes from a new regional poll the survey suggests the tumbling approval rating is linked directly to the budget cuts and economic woes take spain for instance where public support is at a record low or ireland which was just successfully exited from its bailout program despite that the after taste of the austerity dictate is still driving the numbers down the euro skeptic u.k. used to top the critics list with only around third actually back in brussels now it's even lower than that dropping down to less than thirty percent. if money makes the world go round then so it seems do vouchers where if a national reports from paris on the system evading the cowboy bankers. these colorful rich tangle notes and not money but they have a real value you can go shopping with these bills in your wallet pay for dinner at

the restaurant. the idea of alternative also called complimentary currencies that people of businesses agree to use for transactions within a particular area a district quarter with just a street may look like something from a kid's game but the reasons behind it are far from child's play. per partick first product local currencies stay within the region developing like ticks second ideological you have a lot of confidence in official commerce and many people want to have something they understand that they can control and that they can trust not just something that is printed you don't know how with new control and leads to speculation alternative forms of money have a history stretching back decades and appear to be growing in popularity especially tough financial times on the reason enough of a bang splay a lot with money and often risky games but they'd be under the day ordinary people

have to pay for mistakes and losses this is why people want to have a currency that they will be sure will serve them and not go disappear somewhere in fiscal paradise as global finance system so monks today's most famous headline grabbing alternative currency is the digital big coin but there are dozens of others and he's worldwide in france europe's second largest economy people exchange services and goods via at least twenty different types of complimentary currencies and their numbers are growing. that the slain is behind one such project the one probably outside perry's she says she never considered paying with anything other than euros. until the advantages of an alternative became clear. as with the euro is that it's definitely not just a mode of exchange but it also became a mode of speculation to feed banks local currency and support local projects and develop a real economy on the ground which means it works for us the people. because restaurant

is part of the project and then with a flower shop and the supermarket it is wrong. here poor. people in the world of finance that will nothing else but to make people pewter all for their own benefit why should we allow them to do that this sticker indicates this restaurant accept cash the red means of fishing a peach in french but also energy and the slogan was a lot polish your c.v. is used to express someone is in good health and full of energy which the local currencies here in france certainly seem to be experts claim complementary currencies will never replace an official one however if trust is undermined it hard enough in conventional money people may start looking for a different type of change. from france.

coming up on r t international water that makes the land oil oil and gas conflicts will take a back seat in the future because experts predict as populations rise it will be blue gold like will be over also. japan becomes a fertile ground for the far right with calls for foreigners to leave and for the army to be ready to go into action if the need arises all the details later in the program. security is being beeped beefed up in such a host city of the upcoming winter olympics tens of thousands of police officers have been deployed there and access to the area is strictly monitored archies pasco takes a look at what else is being done to keep the game safe. the twenty second olympic winter games in two thousand and fourteen i wore the to defeat b. of thirteen i as soon as russia's black sea resort was awarded the game seven years ago. as a question the choice of host city such as close proximity to the volatile caucasus

region was they argued a cause for concern. and the recent twin terror attacks in volgograd summit seven hundred kilometers from sochi every ignited some of those worries organizers say security has been their main priority since day one from the very beginning of the construction phase the state that. made those months to prepare the special measures to stop them from the screen in all their old materials checking in all the venue and preparing incredible measures of the security to provide this safe environment here with less than a month to go now until the games begin tight security measures are already in place around forty thousand police and security offices are expected to be on patrol for sales of dangerous hunting equipment a bond for the duration of the games there's also

a controlled stretching sixty kilometers along the coast and twenty five kilometers inland and encompassing all venues. in terms of security so it is a special case because this whole area is authorized visit is only there are security details from a number of countries including the u.k. and u.s. working here but no security forces will be coming together to protect places like this is the brand new purpose built train station in the olympic village is going to be one of the main transport hubs during the games moving thousands of spectators with the bulk of the work now complete with all venues and transport networks built and tested sochi is now just waiting for the sporting world to descend. altie. the highlights of the olympic torch relay across russia and beyond are on our website r.t. dot com but for the it follow the flame section. will be back after

a very short break with the story of cooling relations between washington and afghanistan kabul styles essential negotiations out over a security deal after american soldiers kill a toddler staking him plan on jihadists. if you. and you've got the opportunity. to start to construct your own little currency. kunal want to be a bit give don't want to be gangstas you don't want to be drug deal with it only then will we know the time that the kid came to be we can see. you just made some progress there i was in my own problems in the hood. sounds very very wrong clue. for a fellow like me but i said what about the. i don't want to die i just really

do not want to die young young. this is the media leave us so we leave the baby. by the sea potions to cure the other your party there's a bill. for shoes that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politics only on our team. washington's help of signing a new security agreement with afghanistan before presidential elections there is likely to be shattered that's according to america's top negotiator the deal if signed would allow a portion of u.s. troops to remain in the country after their official withdrawal later this year otherwise afghanistan may be left to deal with the taliban and its own relations

between washington and kabul have been aggravated recently after american soldiers killed a toddler mistaking the child for a military or former british we're telling colonel richard williams says it's now crucial how the afghan government copes with internal problems. if the war we try to achieve is to set the conditions whereby an afghan government can deal in a normal way with. the groupings involved including the taleban if those conditions are set and he said be here then what we're likely to see is a compromise between what kabul wants and what the taliban wants which will see afghanistan model along over the next period of time perhaps the next ten years but that in itself won't be any great strategic victory if we want to call it that or any great strategic outcome. now from on air to online news where we've got the

story of fukushima's radiation spreading even further spread efforts to contain the houses leaks from readings have hit eight times the japanese government's safety standards even at the edges of the contamination zone. plus tens of thousands of fingerprints of u.k. students are collected in school databases without any consent causing outrage among civil liberty organizations and parents learn more online. or oil and gas conflicts will be superceded by water wars in the future that's the warning from experts and as the world's population grows access to clean water resources is rising in price let's take a look at this map the blue dots mark the places where conflicts over water disputes broke out since the one nine hundred fifty s. now these include small protests as well as more large and serious large scale clashes there's been one hundred seventy eight disputes and the number of these

hotspots is rising one example is the tension in the middle east where the struggle for water is a key issue on some ongoing conflicts artie's policy player reports. the bible tells us that within a short distance from here jesus turned water into wine two thousand years later the great american might be turning the wine back into water bubby carballo has been living in the golan heights for over thirty years each day he attends to seventy odd an orchard keeping his wine in a center that was once a syrian bunker he is proud of the wine he produces but knows that in the absence of water none of this would be possible i don't know usually water isn't working because it's the second main resource that we have other than the army. needs water and without it you will destroy all the crops and destroy all the farming here you can turn the lights into a disaster and it's not just about the golan heights rainwater from its catchment

feeds into the river jordan providing a food of israel's water supply the disputed region with seeds from syria after the six day war and residents of the golan remember that water was a key issue in the conflict and one of the stands here understands the importance of the work that all the water supply of israel because every door was raining on it's prone to the security of the food we can say that it is a must. expect the president to have all over what the fall says it's a worldwide rule that whoever controls the water controls the land but the problem is in some places there's very little water to go around bring you have the common water officials by several foreign nations is always the possibility of pressure reaches conflicts that should be manageable was put out of control and examples of

possible conflicts are plentiful syria's major water sources travel through turkey and iraq making it vulnerable while jordan is reliant on a river with syria bill today egypt. recently expressed concern of a countries using the up anomaly to generate electric power in the dry landscape of the middle east is a prize more precious than diamonds in its absence famine and drought a quick to follow but this is a region that very seldom needs and excuse food and water shortages might just tipped the balance. in the golan heights. let's not take a look at some other world news protesters to thailand have started blocking traffic in the capital bangkok ahead of monday's city wide shutdown they're hoping their action will bring down the government of prime minister shinawatra the sister of the former premier who was ousted over corruption claims in two thousand and six officials have deployed some fourteen thousand troops during clashes between supporters and opponents of the ruling party. and out of control bush fires

raging in western australia threatening both lives and property and emergency warning has been issued for several suburbs officials say fire brigades will be unable to reach some remote areas under urging people to do whatever they can to protect their homes. more than a dozen people have been injured and twenty three detained one of protest in spain's northern city of goes turned violent people were voicing their anger over higher rents and developers forcing out poor residents police resorted to rubber bullets after protesters torched rubbish bins and vandalized banks and shops the rally followed friday's clashes over corruption claims surrounding a new boulevard. senegalese authorities are to provide food water and medical treatment to the crew of a russian fishing vessel caught up in a weeklong diplomatic spat over the seizure of the trawler the ship with eighty two

crewmembers on board was taken by force over reports of illegal fishing with no official explanation from car moscow has called it an act of piracy greenpeace stepped in and sided. with senegal provoking russia to accuse the african countries government of acting on a tip off from the environmental group for now russian diplomats are trying to steer the crisis toward a diplomatic solution to allow the crew to walk free. nationalism seems to be on the up in japan with far right groups protesting against immigration and demanding a reinforced army and artie's alexy are chefs he found out the angry rhetoric is forcing some difficult questions. it's become a tradition in japan when some foreign officials are subjected to verbal abuse on this particular occasion japanese nationalists made their feelings known loud and clear to russia's foreign minister china and south korea have also been in their crosshairs one for an island dispute the other for sending too many labor migrants

to japan you know the latest protests korean workers were described as cockroaches which needed to be exterminated this man is one of those behind the nationalist rallies in japan he says he'd like to see japan a more closer citee one or there was an openness and with being too open to the world now foreigners come here and commit crimes i want us to return to pre-war period where we were closed and self-sufficient despite criticizing the government for its immigration policies the movement could not be feeling more comfortable since twenty twelve when she was reelected as prime minister such rallies have been on the rise. those are not only foreign nationals and delegations getting their stick from japanese nationalists there are locals who have directly suffered from their country for becoming on the far right these school teachers have been protesting because they lost their jobs for not complying with what they call ultranationalist regulations in schools. should be made as an obligation to listen

to the national anthem before classes until my pupils spawn of who were not even japanese and it wasn't obligatory to stand up and then i got fired but it's not only about instilling national pride speculation is rife that with all this stronger japan hype is eager to amend the nine hundred forty seven constitution namely article number nine which braves japan from having any kind of army other than for defense purposes. in the increasingly intertwined world we can ensure the peace of our nation without proactively taking a role in the peace and security of the world why don't we take steps forward on the issue of constitution amendment but not everyone is buying it and more far reaching goal could be reshaping the regional balance of power. among high profile politicians including former prime minister is launching a public debate on whether japan should have nuclear weapons it never materialized but it's something that the ruling elite has been pondering for years now and

non-pacifist japan that let alone a nuclear power would send shock waves across the region say experts but for now even with nationalist voices getting louder polls suggest that such ideas are still some way from becoming a reality lexy russia c.r.t. reporting from japan. and now how to save new orleans from the cycle of violence it's been kept in for decades the ideas of activists and local residents are right here on r.t. . what a country experiences a tragedy like the recent terrorism involved are out there question is what to do about it i mean we have to do something right let's never let a good tragedy go to waste one do remember recommends getting rid of the moratorium

on the death penalty for prayers groups including terrorists because the death penalty is the perfect way to punish a suicide bomber also there's still a member failed to mention high level crook to kratz in the government as those who could possibly face the firing squad perhaps that was just an honest oversight i'm not against the death penalty in some rare instances but punishing terrorists after the fact doesn't bring victims back the focus needs to be on the source of terrorism soldiers can play. around all day with weapons because the government gives them a salary weapons and training some people are recruiting arming and training new terrorists you don't need to usher in a massive surveillance state to stop terrorism or go death penalty crazy what you need to do is hit the funding and training source hard if you can i mean how many of you guys out there could make a remotely detonated bomb a c. four on your old without help almost none of you see for doesn't grow on trees someone pays for it but that's just my opinion.

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